Kim Jong Il, who passed away Saturday after 14 years of absolute rule over the “hermit kingdom” of North Korea, will be remembered by history as an idiosyncratic despot and a capricious threat to world peace, but his personal eccentricities also made him an object of endless fascination to observers in the media and online. In the wake of his death, a wide range of North Korea-related stories and links have been drawing attention, from a story on Kim Jong Il’s misguided movie ambitions to the website PyongyangTrafficGirls.com. Here’s a roundup of the best Kim-related clicks on the web, broken down by category.

Dear Superman: If the North Korean media is to believed–and it isn’t–the Supreme Leader had powers and abilities that would make mere mortals quake with awe. Odds are he’s not even dead, just chilling with Tupac, Biggie and Elvis and other fellow sultans of swag in an undisclosed location — because anything that could possibly kill him would presumably shatter the Earth itself.

Celebrated at birth: According to Kim’s official biography, infant Jong Il was born on North Korea’s sacred Mount Paektu in a humble log cabin. However, the cosmos recognized that Dear Baby was more than just an average rugrat: Upon his arrival — which was predicted by a talking swallow and heralded by a talking iceberg — a new star burst into existence in the heavens overhead, and a double rainbow graced the skies above Paektu. (This is the actual account of Kim’s birth, as found in DPRK school textbooks. Schoolkids also learn that Kim has no need to urinate or defecate. Everybody poops — except Dear Leader!). The birth of Kim Jong Il, via GOOD Magazine.

King of the links: Kim (according to reports that of course we don’t believe) shattered all known records in his first and only time at the tees, shooting an incredible 38 under par over 18 holes on the opening day of the Pyongyang Golf Complex. His game, witnessed by 17 bodyguards and one pet golf pro, featured no fewer than five holes-in-one. Interested in playing the course Dear Leader conquered for yourself? The U.K.’s Lupine Travel is taking bookings now for the second North Korean Amateur Open, a three-day event scheduled to take place from May 19 to 21, 2012.

Weather vain: Among the various supernatural powers ascribed by to Kim in propaganda reports was his ability to “control the weather with his mood.” North Korean media reported that his birthdays invariably featured perfect weather. Unfortunately, Kim’s alleged climate control abilities couldn’t prevent the DPRK Women’s World Cup team from being “struck by lightning” during training (the official excuse presented by the team’s coach for their 2-0 loss to the U.S. earlier this year).

Dear Clotheshorse: Some called the Heaven Sent Hero’s distinctive personal look ridiculous, but then again, they say the same thing about Gaga. The truth is that the huge impact of his innovative sense of style is only just beginning to be felt.

War ‘drobe: According to the DPRK’s official newswire, the fashion world is experiencing a raging case of Jong Il love. Rodong Sinmun quoted an unidentified “French expert” as saying “Kim Jong-Il mode” — e.g., Kim’s all-occasions outfit, a zipped-up khaki tunic and matching trousers —was “spreading expeditiously worldwide.” Though generally Rodong Sinmun is as unreliable as any other propaganda venthole, in this case, they appear to be right: Foreign Policy magazine put Kim atop its list of the world’s most fashionable fascists.

And, as noted by Forbes, designers from Bottega Veneta to Marc Jacobs seem to be stealing a page from the Pompadoured One’s playbook for their Spring 2012 collections.

Hair supply: But it’s not just clothes that make the tyrant. Kim’s bountiful bouffant was a key part of his signature look — adding inches to the diminutive autocrat’s height, while reminding the world through its mushroom-cloud shape of the nuclear basis for Kim’s outsized leverage. Ironically, however, Kim banned similarly curious coiffure among his subjects, demanding in 2005 that men shear their hair to no more than two inches in length.

Fly shoes: The dictator was rarely seen in public without his signature plats, which gave the reportedly 5’2″ generalissimo a nearly four-inch lift — allowing him to appear in photos as approximately the same height as his South Korean counterparts, Kim Dae-Jung and Roh Tae-Moo.

Crazy shades of nuclear winter: Kim Jong Il was famous for his taste in eyewear — initially favoring tinted Ray Ban aviators, but eventually adopting a set of vintage Andre Courreges — the chunky, geometrical frames providing a perfect cap to Kim’s inimitable retro-futuro supervillain look.

Dear Cinephile: The film industry is a magnet for petty tyrants, so it shouldn’t be surprising that the Glorious General’s was a closet film freak — and would-be director.

Kim’s Netflix queue: Kim reportedly had a library of over 30,000 movies on VHS and DVD, including every Academy Award-winning movie in history. He was a huge fan of Hollywood action and horror films, particularly Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo films, the Friday the 13th franchise and James Bond flicks — though he was reportedly enraged at the villainous depiction of North Korea in “Die Another Day” (Kim’s favorite Bond: Connery). There was a softer side to Kim as well: His favorite screen diva was said to be Elizabeth Taylor, he swooned over “Gone With the Wind” and Steven Spielberg’s slaveship rebellion story “Amistad” made him weep.

The kid(napping) stays in the picture: Kim was so intent on crafting a North Korean film industry in his image that he had DPRK agents abduct South Korea’s most famous film director, Shin Sang-Ok, and — four years later — his actress wife, Choe Eun-hui, forcing them to make movies to his express guidelines.

Master of monsters: Though Kim was reportedly a prolific producer, few fruits of Kim’s cinematic canon are available to global audiences. A notable exception: His socialist-principles Godzilla “homage,” “Pulgasari,“ which can be seen in its English-subtitled entirety on YouTube.

Dear Foodie: His people may have been reduced to subsisting on a diet of grass, but that didn’t stop the Lodestar of the Twenty-First Century from indulging his inner gourmand.

Burger Kim: In 2004, North Korean newspaper Minju Joson reported that the World’s Best Ideal Leader with Versatile Talents had graced his starving population with a brand new taste treat — the gogigyeopbbang, or “double bread with meat.” He then (single-handedly?) built a factory to mass-produce this innovative new food for his nation’s university students and teachers.

A knack for ‘gnac: According to luxury goods conglomerate LVMH, in the early 1990s, Kim was the world’s single biggest consumer of Hennessy cognac, spending between $600,000 to $850,000 — mostly on Hennesy’s exclusive Paradis marque, which runs $700 a bottle.

The despot’s diet: Kim was a lover of seafood — lobsters, shark fin soup and sashimi (demanding that it be fresh enough for the “mouth of the fish to still be moving” when he took his first bite. He had a team of women whose only job was to sort his rice grain by grain before it was cooked, to pluck out any broken or misshapen granules. And among the unique delicacies he reportedly enjoyed were salo (salted and aged pig fat) and koya (barbecued baby pig), and most especially roasted donkey meat.

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